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20th ARIA Awards Ceremony
29 October 2006
Acer Arena, Sydney Olympic Park, NSW
(formerly Sydney SuperDome)
The ARIA Awards is Australia’s premier music awards ceremony. It is run by the Australian Recording Industry Association to recognise excellence, innovation and achievement across all genres of Australian music.
One of Australia’s hottest musical exports, Wolfmother performed live at the Awards for the very first time and won Best Group, Best Rock Album and Best Breakthrough Album. Also performing was The Veronicas (Jess and Lisa), the hip-hop act Hilltop Hoods, Human Nature, Eskimo Joe, Silverchair as well as other favourite Aussie groups. Presenters included Rove McManus, Guy Sebastian, Hamish and Andy, Johnny Knoxville, and others.
ARIA Awards
Hall Of Fame
Midnight Oil, Divinyls, Icehouse, Daddy Cool, Lobby Loyde, Rose Tattoo and Helen Reddy.
| Album Of The Year Bernard Fanning Tea and Sympathy Highest Selling Australian Album Human Nature Reach Out, The Motown Album Single Of The Year Eskimo Joe Black Fingernails, Red Wine Highest Selling Australian Single TV Rock featuring Seany B Flaunt It Best Adult Contemporary Album Bob Evans Suburban Songbook Best Independent Release Hilltop Hoods The Hard Road Best Blues & Roots Album The Audreys Between Last Night and Us | Best Group Wolfmother Wolfmother Best Female Artist Clare Bowditch What Was Left Best Male Artist Bernard Fanning Tea and Sympathy Breakthrough Artist – Album Wolfmother Wolfmother Breakthrough Artist – Single Youth Group Forever Young Best Music DVD Eskimo Joe Eskimo Joe The DVD | Best Country Album Troy Cassar-Daley Brighter Day Best Children’s Album The Wiggles Racing To The Rainbow Best Dance Release TV Rock featuring Seany B Flaunt It Best Comedy Release Lano and Woodley Sing Songs Best Urban Release Hilltop Hoods The Hard Road Best Pop Release The Veronicas The Secret Life Of … Best Rock Album Wolfmother Wolfmother |
Fine Arts Awards
| Best Classical Album Richard Tognetti Bach Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin Best Jazz Album The Necks Chemist | Best Original Soundtrack, Cast, Show Recording Paul Kelly and Dan Luscombe featuring Soteria Bell Jindabyne Best World Music Album The Cat Empire Cities The Cat Empire Project |
Artisan Awards
| Best Video Head Pictures Bernard Fanning – Wish You Well Best Cover Art Debaser Bernard Fanning – Tea and Sympathy | Producer Of The Year Eskimo Joe Eskimo Joe – Black Fingernails, Red Wine Engineer Of The Year Matt Lovell Eskimo Joe – Black Fingernails, Red Wine |
